Geoff Murphy (1938-2018)

Geoff Murphy was born in Wellington in October 1938 and rose to become one of New Zealand's greatest film makers through works such as 'Goodbye Pork Pie', 'Utu', and 'The Quiet Earth' during the 1980s. Moving to the Hollywood in the 1990s he directed numerous films and became renowned for "fast action sequences and knockabout comedies". In the early 2000s Murphy returned to New Zealand and continued to work in film. In recent year he was awarded a Moa NZ Film Lifetime Achievement Award (2013), and was made an NZOM in the 2014 New Year Honours.

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